CALLAHAN COUNTY — The idea for a “solar robot” started several years ago as a sketch on a cocktail napkin in a hotel lobby. Fast forward to mid-April and Rosendin Electric Senior Vice President David ...

The world’s hunger for energy is growing at an unprecedented rate thanks to growing manufacturing and AI data centers. And our current electric generation capabilities just can’t cope with the demand.

Workers observe as solar robots by Rosendin install photovoltaic solar modules on Thursday, April 17, 2025, at the Sequoia Solar Facility in Cisco. Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer CALLAHAN COUNTY ...

Three years ago, robotics engineer Banks Hunter drove deep into the Mojave Desert to see a solar farm under construction. Cardboard boxes with around 2 million solar panels were scattered over tens of ...

Out in the California sun, a new kind of farmhand is hard at work. Powered by solar energy and guided by artificial intelligence, the solar-powered weeding robot for cotton fields is offering farmers ...

The Terafab robot – aka the “construction automation platform” – installed 17 megawatts (MW) of the 225 MW White Wing Ranch project in Yuma County, Arizona, on which solar tech company Terabase Energy ...

Italian renewables giant Enel Green Power and Sicily-based robotic tech startup Reiwa have developed a robot that automatically cleans solar panels without using water or gas. Dust and dirt can be a ...

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